Experiencing Ways Through Words

On Our Relationships with Language (and so Literature)
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-54951-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

We tend to think of ourselves  language. What if we thought instead about language  or about language as something we  rather than  ? This book explores the generative capacities of language, suggesting that we need to pay much greater attention to the meaning-making capabilities, and political and moral implications, of more intangible aspects of language: atmosphere, mood, texture, the mode-of-being a use of language carries — and not only carries, but gives off, sends into both its reader and writer. Advancing an interpretation of language as fundamentally attitudinal and creative, explores literature in the light of such thinking, claiming that properties we tend to sideline as ‘aesthetic’ are profoundly constitutive of a text’s capacity for significance.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abdeni-Holman, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.-Introduction. -2.-the critical conversation.- literature in the public sphere. -3.-the attitudinal realm. -Leavis’s early writings. -4.-enabling.-being language animals.-Index.

Über Autor(innen)

"Emily Abdeni-Holman is a writer and critic. She read for her doctorate in literature at the University of Oxford. Her first book,  , on Lebanon’s socioeconomic crisis, is an experiment in exploring structural disaster through poetry."